Glass Jaw Boxing Studio
I have been working out and training for a long time. If I think back to my adolescence and even childhood, I spent many (many) hours dancing and then cheerleading, and basically living a pretty athletic lifestyle.
It’s not something I ever took for granted. Exercise and movement are integral to our wellbeing. I keep a serious roster of cardio, endurance, flexibility and breathing in my weekly schedule so I give myself a full-body workout. I like to keep things interesting – sometimes that means working out with friends, or trying new gyms or trainers. I realized, one of the elements that I love most when working out is engaging my mind as well as my body.
Cut to my love of boxing. It wasn’t too long ago (maybe a couple years) that I first tried my fist at boxing. Gloves on, legs at the ready, I had no idea what I was in for, but I thought, ‘hey, I could punch the air for a bit and see how it goes!’ Little did I know that Matt Socholotiuk would blow my mind with a simple 1, 2, 3, 4.
Boxing is more than a few punches and kicks. It’s more than a full-body workout. What I learned from boxing is that your mind needs to be focused, sharp, ready. You need to be strong and aware, you need to have a vocab of punches and protective stances in your arsenal. Matt calls out a bunch of numbers and there you are, in a choreography of punches, swaying your body back and forth, up and down, breathing to the sound of your glove hitting his. Can you tell how obsessed I am!?
When my great friend Irene Louiso and Matt decided to open a boxing gym together, my smile was legit from ear to ear. As you all know from my stories, I’ve been doing privates with both of these gems for a while, but now I’ll have a place to train: Glass Jaw Boxing Studio. Brilliant.
Glass Jaw Boxing Studio is a training facility complete with a full spectrum of workouts and trainers. Located in St Henri, the boutique gym offers private, semi-private and group classes, not to mentioned that you can utilize the space in a variety of different capacities (think team building and even kid’s parties).
It’s a mental workout as much as it is a physical one. I think that’s what attracts me most to boxing – it keeps me coming back for me because I am totally engaged head-to-toe. When you first try boxing, you think you’re going in to learn how to fight… you couldn’t be more wrong. Yes you are conditioning, strengthening and gaining power, but you are also constantly thinking one step ahead, testing your focus, and learning the art of performing under pressure.